horsefly

English

Alternative forms

• horse-fly
• horse fly

Etymology

From Middle English horse fliȝe, equivalent to horse +‎ fly.

Pronunciation

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Noun

horsefly (plural horseflies)

1. Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with , the stable fly, or dog fly).

Synonyms

• (fly of family Tabanidae): cleg (dialectal), breezefly, gadfly, stoat-fly, stout

Hyponyms

• (individual species or subgroups of the family Tabanidae): deer fly, yellow fly, March fly (Australia), zimb

Translations

fly of the family Tabanidae

• Afrikaans: perdevlieg
• Arabic: نُعَرَة f (nuʕara)
• Armenian: մոզ (hy) (moz)
• Aromanian: davan m, tãun m, bumbar m, streclji f
• Asturian: tabánido m
• Azerbaijani: göyün
• Bashkir: күгәүен (kügəwen)
• Basque: ezpara
• Bavarian: Brejm
• Belarusian: сляпень m (sljapjenʹ)
• Bengali: ঘোড়া মাছি (ghōṛa machi)
• Breton: moui f (collective), mouienn f, boui f (collective), bouienn f
• Bulgarian: ко́нска муха́ f (kónska muhá)
• Catalan: tabànid m
• Cherokee: ᏓᎦᎦ (dagaga)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 虻 (mong⁴)

  Mandarin: 虻 (zh) (méng)

• Czech: ovád m
• Danish: klæg c
• Dutch: daas (nl) c, brems (nl) c, paardevlieg f, paardenhorzel (nl) c
• Esperanto: tabano
• Estonian: parm
• Faroese: kleggi m
• Finnish: paarma (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: tavan m
• French: taon (fr) m
• Friulian: tavan m
• Galician: moscardo m, mosca caíña f, tabardo m, tabán m
• Gamilaraay: baanduu
• Georgian: მაწუხელა (mac̣uxela)
• German: Bremse (de) f
• Greek: αλογόμυγα (el) f (alogómyga)

  Ancient: μύωψ m (múōps)

• Hebrew: זְבוּב הַסּוּס m (zvuv hasus)
• Hungarian: bögöly (hu)
• Icelandic: kleggi m
• Ido: tabano (io)
• Indonesian: pikat (id)
• Irish: creabhar m, creabhar capaill m
• Italian: tafano (it) m
• Japanese: 虻 (ja) (あぶ, abu)
• Kabyle: aggug
• Kannada: ತೊಣಚೆ (kn) (toṇace)
• Kazakh: сона (sona)
• Korean: 등에 (deung'e)
• Kyrgyz: көгөөн (kögöön)
• Latin: tabānus m
• Latvian: dundurs m
• Limburgish: sjeldaes, staekvleeg f
• Lithuanian: sparvos m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Bau (nds) m

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• Luxembourgish: Beel f
• Macedonian: ко́њска му́ва f (kónjska múva)
• Malay: pikat
• Malayalam: പോന്ത (ml) (pōnta)
• Mapun: pikot
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari:

  Western Mari: пармы (parmy)

• Navajo: tłʼézhii, łį́į́ʼ bitsísʼná
• Norman: taon m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klegg m

  Nynorsk: klegg m

• Occitan: tavan (oc) m
• Old Norse: kleggi m
• Persian: خرمگس (fa) (xar-magas)
• Polish: bąk (pl) m
• Portuguese: mutuca (pt) f, tavão (pt) m, moscardo (pt) m
• Quechua: tak'a
• Romanian: tăun (ro) m
• Russian: сле́пень (ru) m (slépenʹ)
• Samogitian: bimbals m
• Scots: cleg
• Scottish Gaelic: creithleag-nan-each f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̏ба̄д m, (Serbia, Montenegro) ко̏њска му̀ва f, (Croatia, Bosnia) ко̏њска му̀ха f

  Roman: ȍbād (sh) m, (Serbia, Montenegro) kȍnjska mùva (sh) f, (Croatia, Bosnia) kȍnjska mùha f

• Sicilian: tavana
• Skolt Sami: puär
• Slovak: ovad m
• Slovene: obad (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: slěpc m, slěpik m

  Upper Sorbian: slěpc m, slěpik m

• Spanish: tábano (es) m, tabánido m
• Sundanese: piteuk
• Swahili: pange
• Swedish: broms (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabayo-lipad
• Tajik: хармагас (xarmagas), kӯрмагас (kürmagas)
• Telugu: జోరీగ (te) (jōrīga)
• Thai: ฑังส (th), เหลือบ (lʉ̀ʉap)
• Turkish: atsineği
• Ukrainian: ґедзь (uk) m (gedzʹ)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: сўна (soʻna)

  Roman: soʻna (uz)

• Venetian: tavàn m
• Welsh: pryfyn y gweryd m
• Westrobothnian:
• Yakut: күлүмэн (külümen)

Anagrams

• floryshe, shore fly